'Imaged' is probably the wrong word to use based on its connotations outside the field. What this paper represents is a full 3D reconstruction of the atomic con

'Imaged' is probably the wrong word to use based on its connotations outside the field. What this paper represents is a full 3D reconstruction of the atomic configuration of disordered solid, and so the result is really a point cloud not pixels or voxels. This sort of atomic scale reconstruction is really hard to achieve outside of simulation, and some very cool things can be done with it. The 'Short-Range-Order' of disordered or semi-ordered structures is really difficult to probe, but may play a signficant role in properties.